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Webcache

2005-02-14T14:01:16Z

Sk8muc: Update on Webcache and Crypto concers

== Description ==

The idea of webcache is to upload the shared data into an ISP proxy and leave it there for other [[client]]s to download.

The description of the scheme can be found with full details in the [http://forum.emule-project.net/index.php?showtopic=14768 original post]. Plus, there are lot's of additional documentation pages all around the net; [http://www.google.com Google] is your friend ;)

== History ==

The idea began on 13 April 2003 at [http://forum.emule-project.net eMule's forums] when [mailto:sufcrusher@zonnet.nl sufcrusher] posted [http://forum.emule-project.net/index.php?showtopic=14768 this post]. The history can be followed there up to the first [[eMule]] mods implementing it.

== Pros and cons ==

=== Pros ===

* The most evident pro, and the main purpose of it, is that web proxies have a lot of bandwidth and very high speed so the data sharing speeds should be greatly boosted.

* Also, [[P2P]] [[client]]s generate heavy traffic on ISPs since they open and close lots of connections in very little time and send/receive large amounts of data. Using webcache would stop these connections from going through the ISPs since they would only get to the ISPs' proxies.

=== Cons ===

* Since all your data (or some of it) would pass through your ISP's proxy, your ISP would know what you are sharing, so your privacy would suffer greatly.

--[[User:Sk8muc|Sk8muc]] 15:01, 14 Feb 2005 (CET): Sorry, but you have to pass your ISP's infrastucture any way. Most ISP's operate Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). Those already collect all necessary data and every time a String with ".mp3" passes through your network, a record in a database will be made. As it's the ISP's infrastrcute, they already know who it is, as the link between your IP Address and the Radius server is simple as nothing else!

Solution: we have to start crypting all the traffic with AES-256, and private keys. Remember: would you send your username and passwort in clear text to your root sever? Everybody is using SSH, but for P2P sharing, it seems that we are afraid of it.

* It is not clear whether using ISPs' web proxies for things other than web data is legal. Even if it was in your country, legislation are different from state to state, so [[client]]s try to conform to the broadest possible range of legislation to keep their users from having unpleasant experiencies with the law. Also, allthough the webcache feature might be better for your ISP, it can be bad if the traffic is too high, so you might have your ISP breaking the contract with you and leaving you without connection.

--[[User:Sk8muc|Sk8muc]] 15:01, 14 Feb 2005 (CET): Sharing is nowadays in most countries illegal. I've never heard that the simple use of the ISP's webproxy is illegal. Use the proxy, as this eases the traffic of small packets on the WAN links.

* Like it or not, webcache at large scale becomes a DDoS to the ISP's http cache servers. The ISPs' clients will notice a worse quality of the service, and ISPs will blame the webcache, being right. What's worse: [[P2P]] developers that support webcache could be sued for developing DDoS tools and invite people to use it, ISPs can say they are losing clients because of the quality the lost in their services, and so, [[P2P]] developer teams could have big problems.

--[[User:Sk8muc|Sk8muc]] 15:01, 14 Feb 2005 (CET): Common, there are so many DDoS tools outside and why should [[P2P]] traffic break the proxies? Then we should immediately stopp using proxies. As with 3MBit and 8ms letancy every cache is slower then the direct request (reflecting my sitation here)

* The [[P2P]] networks are being heavily tracked by some governments since they believe they are used for illegal purposes. There is a popular saying: "if it works, don't touch it". Well, that applies it here.
--[[User:Sk8muc|Sk8muc]] 15:01, 14 Feb 2005 (CET): Yet an other reason for encrypting the traffic! Thanks for the hint!

== Implementing webcache ==

There are already some [[client]]s out there supporting webcache. Most of them are [[eMule]] mods. We do '''NOT''' recommend using them. These mods bring down the [[P2P]] reputation and by using them you contribute in doing so.

== Regarding [[aMule]] ==

Discussions about implementing webcache feature into [[aMule]] have appeared many times in [http://forum.amule.org aMule's forums] although maybe the most relevant is [http://www.amule-project.net/amule/thread.php?threadid=3513 this one].

Anyway, until further (and highly unlikely) news, neither [[aMule]] nor [[eMule]] are going to officially support webcache in any future release.

Install-amule-freebsd

2004-12-15T15:03:40Z

Sk8muc: =Update 15-Dec-2004: Install aMule-cvs on FreeBSD 5.3=

This page is likely to be updated soon, but it might help you even right now.

== Update 15-Dec-2004: Install aMule-cvs on FreeBSD 5.3 ==

Make sure you have installed:

/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/wxgtk2

-> Ignore the "problems" about wxgtk2 on FreeBSD. It works perfect!

Download the latest aMule-cvs snapshot
[http://www.amule.org/files/download.php?file=5 aMule-cvs Files]

fetch http://amule.hirnriss.net/cvs/aMule-cvs-20041215.tar.bz2

tar -zxvf aMule-cvs-20041215.tar.bz2

cd amule-cvs/

./configure --prefix=~/amule-cvs/
--with-wx-config=/usr/X11R6/bin/wx-config
--with-wxbase-config=/usr/X11R6/bin/wx-config
--disable-debug --with-curl-config=/usr/local/bin/curl-config
--enable-optimize --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib
--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include --localstatedir=/usr/X11R6/share/gnome
--datadir=/usr/X11R6/share/gnome --with-html-dir=/usr/X11R6/share/doc
--with-crypto-prefix=/usr/local --with-included-gettext --disable-cas

gmake
cd ~/amule-cvs/src/amule

If you would like to install RC7, you can follow the same instructions.

Greetz,
Martin

[mailto://amule@air-maxx.net amule@air-maxx.net]

== Install [[aMule]] 2.0.0rc3 on [http://www.freebsd.org FreeBSD] 5.x ==

Why would you ask... we have ''/usr/ports/net/amule''
Well, this is the stable version 1.2.6
We wanna stay current or help testing / debugging, why else would you read this?

== Install ports we need if you don't allready have (see ''pkg_info'') ==

''x11-toolkits/wxgtk''

also (but you will have these already ;-)) ''devel/gettext'' and ''devel/gmake''

You know how to install ports as a [http://www.bsd.org BSD] user, so I don't have to tell you, I hope. It's just too easy you know. In case you're very new to [http://www.freebsd.org FreeBSD], consult the great [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook handbook] at [http://www.freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org].

== Configure ==

The ''./configure'' does not work 100% automagically, we must help it out a bit.

Edit the '''<your home>''' tag, of course, or install it elsewhere.

''./configure --prefix=/home/'''<your home>'''/amule --with-wx-config=/usr/X11R6/bin/wxgtk-2.4-config --with-wxbase-config=/usr/X11R6/bin/wxgtk-2.4-config''

'''NOTE:''' This is one single line, not 3 lines or whatever [http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki wiki]/HTML/your browser wraps this line into.

You will see configure doesn't find ''gdlib-config'', even if you installed ''gdlib''. Don't care, it's just not there and it's no "must have". Just skip it.

'''NOTE:''' If you get the following warning:

''WARNING!! Your wxWidgets copy has been linked against GTK2 and this will make aMule be unstable, use so much cpu and ram. You have been advised, don't report bugs so.''

at the end of ''configure'' you are probably linking against [[wxWidgets|wxGTK2]] instead of [[wxWidgets|wxGTK]]. [[aMule]] will memleak and eat your CPU. It will probably crash as well. Use [[wxWidgets|wxGTK]] as mentioned above!

== Make ==

''make'' will fail, use ''gmake''

''make'' is [http://www.bsd.org BSD] [http://www.gnu.org/software/make make], ''gmake'' is [http://www.gnu.org GNU] [http://www.gnu.org/software/make make]. They are '''not''' compatible.

Now do:

''gmake''

Get yourself a hot green tea (I prefer some sort of sencha) while it is compiling.

Then do:

''gmake install''

== Use it ==

Just start it with ''/home/<your home>/amule/bin/amule''
or wherever you installed it to...

Have phun

Eugene

== The rc6 port ==

Visit http://www.amule-project.net/amule/thread.php?threadid=3758 and do as it sais ;-)

== The rc7 port ==

Hi all, the rc7 port is now available on my website : http://contribs.martymac.com.
I've also added binaries for those who don't want to spend time to compile. The port works on FreeBSD 4.10 and 5.2.1. Any feedback welcome. I've changed some options to the Makefile : amule-ed2k-handler is now amule-ed2k, and cmd+GUI options are now joined in global ones. Do a "make config" prior to the "make install" to update your config file.

Enjoy :)

Ganael LAPLANCHE

http://contribs.martymac.com

[mailto://ganael.laplanche@martymac.com ganael.laplanche@martymac.com]

Install-amule-freebsd

2004-12-15T15:02:59Z

Sk8muc: =Update 15-Dec-2004: Install aMule-cvs on FreeBSD 5.3=

This page is likely to be updated soon, but it might help you even right now.

== Update 15-Dec-2004: Install aMule-cvs on FreeBSD 5.3 ==

Make sure you have installed:
/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/wxgtk2
-> Ignore the "problems" about wxgtk2 on FreeBSD. It works perfect!

Download the latest aMule-cvs snapshot
[http://www.amule.org/files/download.php?file=5 aMule-cvs Files]

fetch http://amule.hirnriss.net/cvs/aMule-cvs-20041215.tar.bz2

tar -zxvf aMule-cvs-20041215.tar.bz2

cd amule-cvs/

./configure --prefix=~/amule-cvs/ \

--with-wx-config=/usr/X11R6/bin/wx-config \

--with-wxbase-config=/usr/X11R6/bin/wx-config \

--disable-debug --with-curl-config=/usr/local/bin/curl-config \

--enable-optimize --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib \

--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include --localstatedir=/usr/X11R6/share/gnome \

--datadir=/usr/X11R6/share/gnome --with-html-dir=/usr/X11R6/share/doc \

--with-crypto-prefix=/usr/local --with-included-gettext --disable-cas

gmake
cd ~/amule-cvs/src/amule

If you would like to install RC7, you can follow the same instructions.

Greetz,
Martin

[mailto://amule@air-maxx.net amule@air-maxx.net]

== Install [[aMule]] 2.0.0rc3 on [http://www.freebsd.org FreeBSD] 5.x ==

Why would you ask... we have ''/usr/ports/net/amule''
Well, this is the stable version 1.2.6
We wanna stay current or help testing / debugging, why else would you read this?

== Install ports we need if you don't allready have (see ''pkg_info'') ==

''x11-toolkits/wxgtk''

also (but you will have these already ;-)) ''devel/gettext'' and ''devel/gmake''

You know how to install ports as a [http://www.bsd.org BSD] user, so I don't have to tell you, I hope. It's just too easy you know. In case you're very new to [http://www.freebsd.org FreeBSD], consult the great [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook handbook] at [http://www.freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org].

== Configure ==

The ''./configure'' does not work 100% automagically, we must help it out a bit.

Edit the '''<your home>''' tag, of course, or install it elsewhere.

''./configure --prefix=/home/'''<your home>'''/amule --with-wx-config=/usr/X11R6/bin/wxgtk-2.4-config --with-wxbase-config=/usr/X11R6/bin/wxgtk-2.4-config''

'''NOTE:''' This is one single line, not 3 lines or whatever [http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki wiki]/HTML/your browser wraps this line into.

You will see configure doesn't find ''gdlib-config'', even if you installed ''gdlib''. Don't care, it's just not there and it's no "must have". Just skip it.

'''NOTE:''' If you get the following warning:

''WARNING!! Your wxWidgets copy has been linked against GTK2 and this will make aMule be unstable, use so much cpu and ram. You have been advised, don't report bugs so.''

at the end of ''configure'' you are probably linking against [[wxWidgets|wxGTK2]] instead of [[wxWidgets|wxGTK]]. [[aMule]] will memleak and eat your CPU. It will probably crash as well. Use [[wxWidgets|wxGTK]] as mentioned above!

== Make ==

''make'' will fail, use ''gmake''

''make'' is [http://www.bsd.org BSD] [http://www.gnu.org/software/make make], ''gmake'' is [http://www.gnu.org GNU] [http://www.gnu.org/software/make make]. They are '''not''' compatible.

Now do:

''gmake''

Get yourself a hot green tea (I prefer some sort of sencha) while it is compiling.

Then do:

''gmake install''

== Use it ==

Just start it with ''/home/<your home>/amule/bin/amule''
or wherever you installed it to...

Have phun

Eugene

== The rc6 port ==

Visit http://www.amule-project.net/amule/thread.php?threadid=3758 and do as it sais ;-)

== The rc7 port ==

Hi all, the rc7 port is now available on my website : http://contribs.martymac.com.
I've also added binaries for those who don't want to spend time to compile. The port works on FreeBSD 4.10 and 5.2.1. Any feedback welcome. I've changed some options to the Makefile : amule-ed2k-handler is now amule-ed2k, and cmd+GUI options are now joined in global ones. Do a "make config" prior to the "make install" to update your config file.

Enjoy :)

Ganael LAPLANCHE

http://contribs.martymac.com

[mailto://ganael.laplanche@martymac.com ganael.laplanche@martymac.com]

Install-amule-freebsd

2004-12-15T15:02:16Z

Sk8muc:

This page is likely to be updated soon, but it might help you even right now.

== Update 15-Dec-2004: Install aMule-cvs on FreeBSD 5.3 ==

Make sure you have installed:
/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/wxgtk2
-> Ignore the "problems" about wxgtk2 on FreeBSD. It works perfect!

Download the latest aMule-cvs snapshot
[http://www.amule.org/files/download.php?file=5 aMule-cvs Files]

fetch http://amule.hirnriss.net/cvs/aMule-cvs-20041215.tar.bz2
tar -zxvf aMule-cvs-20041215.tar.bz2
cd amule-cvs/
./configure --prefix=~/amule-cvs/ \
--with-wx-config=/usr/X11R6/bin/wx-config \
--with-wxbase-config=/usr/X11R6/bin/wx-config \
--disable-debug --with-curl-config=/usr/local/bin/curl-config \
--enable-optimize --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib \
--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include --localstatedir=/usr/X11R6/share/gnome \
--datadir=/usr/X11R6/share/gnome --with-html-dir=/usr/X11R6/share/doc \
--with-crypto-prefix=/usr/local --with-included-gettext --disable-cas

gmake
cd ~/amule-cvs/src/amule

If you would like to install RC7, you can follow the same instructions.

Greetz,
Martin

[mailto://amule@air-maxx.net amule@air-maxx.net]

== Install [[aMule]] 2.0.0rc3 on [http://www.freebsd.org FreeBSD] 5.x ==

Why would you ask... we have ''/usr/ports/net/amule''
Well, this is the stable version 1.2.6
We wanna stay current or help testing / debugging, why else would you read this?

== Install ports we need if you don't allready have (see ''pkg_info'') ==

''x11-toolkits/wxgtk''

also (but you will have these already ;-)) ''devel/gettext'' and ''devel/gmake''

You know how to install ports as a [http://www.bsd.org BSD] user, so I don't have to tell you, I hope. It's just too easy you know. In case you're very new to [http://www.freebsd.org FreeBSD], consult the great [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook handbook] at [http://www.freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org].

== Configure ==

The ''./configure'' does not work 100% automagically, we must help it out a bit.

Edit the '''<your home>''' tag, of course, or install it elsewhere.

''./configure --prefix=/home/'''<your home>'''/amule --with-wx-config=/usr/X11R6/bin/wxgtk-2.4-config --with-wxbase-config=/usr/X11R6/bin/wxgtk-2.4-config''

'''NOTE:''' This is one single line, not 3 lines or whatever [http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki wiki]/HTML/your browser wraps this line into.

You will see configure doesn't find ''gdlib-config'', even if you installed ''gdlib''. Don't care, it's just not there and it's no "must have". Just skip it.

'''NOTE:''' If you get the following warning:

''WARNING!! Your wxWidgets copy has been linked against GTK2 and this will make aMule be unstable, use so much cpu and ram. You have been advised, don't report bugs so.''

at the end of ''configure'' you are probably linking against [[wxWidgets|wxGTK2]] instead of [[wxWidgets|wxGTK]]. [[aMule]] will memleak and eat your CPU. It will probably crash as well. Use [[wxWidgets|wxGTK]] as mentioned above!

== Make ==

''make'' will fail, use ''gmake''

''make'' is [http://www.bsd.org BSD] [http://www.gnu.org/software/make make], ''gmake'' is [http://www.gnu.org GNU] [http://www.gnu.org/software/make make]. They are '''not''' compatible.

Now do:

''gmake''

Get yourself a hot green tea (I prefer some sort of sencha) while it is compiling.

Then do:

''gmake install''

== Use it ==

Just start it with ''/home/<your home>/amule/bin/amule''
or wherever you installed it to...

Have phun

Eugene

== The rc6 port ==

Visit http://www.amule-project.net/amule/thread.php?threadid=3758 and do as it sais ;-)

== The rc7 port ==

Hi all, the rc7 port is now available on my website : http://contribs.martymac.com.
I've also added binaries for those who don't want to spend time to compile. The port works on FreeBSD 4.10 and 5.2.1. Any feedback welcome. I've changed some options to the Makefile : amule-ed2k-handler is now amule-ed2k, and cmd+GUI options are now joined in global ones. Do a "make config" prior to the "make install" to update your config file.

Enjoy :)

Ganael LAPLANCHE

http://contribs.martymac.com

[mailto://ganael.laplanche@martymac.com ganael.laplanche@martymac.com]